[In-Development] BitPrice.link - Live Bitcoin/Crypto Calculator! [Open-Source]

[MartinL]

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[coinableS]

Er... i've got it working for now, however it's still primitive, it get's the value after every keypress.

Looks to be working for the BTC/USD. Only one direction, it doesn't reverse if the user enters in a USD amount.

Here's a very simple version that just uses javascript for everything and runs on the client side.
https://jsfiddle.net/yb4ot795/
Seems pretty fast without having to cache or store anything in a database. 

[Decoded]

Er... i've got it working for now, however it's still primitive, it get's the value after every keypress.

Looks to be working for the BTC/USD. Only one direction, it doesn't reverse if the user enters in a USD amount.

Here's a very simple version that just uses javascript for everything and runs on the client side.
https://jsfiddle.net/yb4ot795/
Seems pretty fast without having to cache or store anything in a database.  

I've updated github. Will push to my VPS. At the moment, i've done alot on my c9.io test site. Will update when bitprice.link is updated.

I also have acquired bitprice.info, so that's a plus too!

EDIT - Site is live. First page load may take about one second to get the prices, then after that the prices are cached until you refresh the page. Currently only works on USD, and will get it to auto-refresh prices.

[Decoded]

Could I get some help? I can't seem to understand what is wrong. Loaded straight from github, when I change the currency, I have to click it EUR three times before it changes the value. Same with changing back to USD.

Live test - bitprice.herokuapp.com

[arunka71]

Why not use a a href for the menu items?

[Decoded]

Why not use a a href for the menu items?

I was going to get onto that, but I'm currently using a Semantic UI, which uses mainly divs.

Currently have yearlies, once they're over I'll start working on this again.

[epson121]

Hey @Decoded,

it seems like semantic-UI has something to do with this. Most likely it's UI is updated after your getprices() function is called. In addition, the reload() function in update.js is not triggerred in intervals, making it unusable. The fastest I could do to try and fix this can be seen in this commit: commit

I'm not sure if the code is intended to be run like this, and I would advise to remove the interval altogether, and at least use something native to semantic UI - check here. Also, cleanup would come in very handy. There is a lot of unneeded code there, and a mix of a lot of technologies (php, sh, py, js, whole node_modules etc). I had to go through a lot of files to make sure it's safe to run it.

[Decoded]

Hey @Decoded,

it seems like semantic-UI has something to do with this. Most likely it's UI is updated after your getprices() function is called. In addition, the reload() function in update.js is not triggerred in intervals, making it unusable. The fastest I could do to try and fix this can be seen in this commit: commit

I'm not sure if the code is intended to be run like this, and I would advise to remove the interval altogether, and at least use something native to semantic UI - check here. Also, cleanup would come in very handy. There is a lot of unneeded code there, and a mix of a lot of technologies (php, sh, py, js, whole node_modules etc). I had to go through a lot of files to make sure it's safe to run it.

Bingo. I haven't made the push to GitHub yet, but I'm working on an entirely new drop down, without Semantic UI. What I found was that there was a lag after you clicked the button and until the div actually changed its contents.